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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
you do realize that at a regional with 30 teams, vs one with 60, you get to play twice as many seeding matches?
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You also get less than half the time between matches to make repairs and adjustments and software tweaks and autonomous mode tests etc.
That's the single thing I wasn't completely happy about at the Boilermaker regional we just attended. We were plagued by a small but effective failure in a difficult-to-repair mechanism at the end of practice Thursday, and the students in the pit spent much of the non-playing time Friday morning fixing it in interrupted bursts of frenzied activity. With less than fifteen minutes between matches at times, the drive team almost never had a chance to do a complete "preflight" of the robot before they were practically dragged out of the pit by a queuing agent.